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Samana (Punjab, India) (search for this): chapter 24
ed out on the whole civilized world marshalled against him. America, full of slaves, of course was hostile. Only the Yankee sold him poor muskets at a very high price. [Laughter.] Mounting his horse, and riding to the eastern end of the island, Samana, he looked out on a sight such as no native had ever seen before. Sixty ships of the line, crowded by the best soldiers of Europe, rounded the point. They were soldiers who had never yet met an equal, whose tread, like Caesar's, had shaken Euroword to Dessalines: When I take you, I will not shoot you like a soldier, or hang you like a white man; I will whip you to death like a slave. Dessalines chased him from battle-field to battle-field, from fort to fort, and finally shut him up in Samana. Heating cannon-balls to destroy his fleet, Dessalines learned that Rochambeau had begged of the British admiral to cover his troops with the English flag, and the generous negro suffered the boaster to embark undisturbed. Some doubt the cour
Madrid (Spain) (search for this): chapter 24
come home. I pardon the crimes of the last twelve years; I blot out its parties; I found my throne on the hearts of all Frenchmen, --and twelve years of unclouded success showed how wisely he judged. That was in 1802. In 1800 this negro made a proclamation; it runs thus: Sons of St. Domingo, come home. We never meant to take your houses or your lands. The negro only asked that liberty which God gave him. Your houses wait for you; your lands are ready; come and cultivate them ;--and from Madrid and Paris, from Baltimore and New Orleans, the emigrant planters crowded home to enjoy their estates, under the pledged word that was never broken of a victorious slave. [Cheers.] Again, Carlyle has said, The natural king is one who melts all wills into his own. At this moment he turned to his armies,--poor, ill-clad, and half-starved,--and said to them: Go back and work on these estates you have conquered; for an empire can be founded only on order and industry, and you can learn thes
Fort St. George (Tamil Nadu, India) (search for this): chapter 24
orious words to his soldiers at the Pyramids: Forty centuries look down upon us. In the same mood, Toussaint said to the French captain who urged him to go to France in his frigate, Sir, your ship is not large enough to carry me. Napoleon, you know, could never bear the military uniform. He hated the restraint of his rank; he loved to put on the gray coat of the Little Corporal, and wander in the camp. Toussaint also never could bear a uniform. He wore a plain coat, and often the yellow Madras handkerchief of the slaves. A French lieutenant once called him a maggot in a yellow handkerchief. Toussaint took him prisoner next day, and sent him home to his mother. Like Napoleon, he could fast many days; could dictate to three secretaries at once; could wear out four or five horses. Like Napoleon, no man ever divined his purpose or penetrated his plan. He was only a negro, and so, in him, they called it hypocrisy. In Bonaparte we style it diplomacy. For instance, three attempts
Napoleon (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
t Napoleon, that when the epigrammatists of Paris christened his wasteful and tasteless expense at Versailles, Soulouquerie, from the name of Soulouque, the Black Emperor, he deigned to issue a specific order forbidding the use of the word. The Napoleon blood is very sensitive. So Napoleon resolved to crush Toussaint from one motive or another, from the prompting of ambition, or dislike of this resemblance,--which was very close. If either imitated the other, it must have been the white, sinct, in Josephine's time, a young French marquis was placed there, and the girl to whom he was betrothed went to the Empress and prayed for his release. Said Josephine to her, Have a model of it made, and bring it to me. Josephine placed it near Napoleon. He said, Take it away,--it is horrible! She put it on his footstool, and he kicked it from him. She held it to him the third time, and said, Sire, in this horrible dungeon you have put a man to die. Take him out, said Napoleon, and the girl
Moscow, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
France comes to make us slaves. God gave us liberty; France has no right to take it away. Burn the cities, destroy the harvests, tear up the roads with cannon, poison the wells, show the white man the hell he comes to make ;--and he was obeyed. [Applause.] When the great William of Orange saw Louis XIV. cover Holland with troops, he said, Break down the dikes, give Holland back to ocean ; and Europe said, Sublime When Alexander saw the armies of France descend upon Russia, he said, Burn Moscow, starve back the invaders ; and Europe said, Sublime!! This black saw all Europe marshalled to crush him, and gave to his people the same heroic example of defiance. It is true, the scene grows bloodier as we proceed. But, remember, the white man fitly accompanied his infamous attempt to reduce freemen to slavery with every bloody and cruel device that bitter and shameless hate could invent. Aristocracy is always cruel. The black man met the attempt, as every such attempt should be m
Orange, Ma. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
nly mistake of his life,--his confidence in Bonaparte, which had led him to disband his army. Returning to the hills, he issued the only proclamation which bears his name and breathes vengeance: My children, France comes to make us slaves. God gave us liberty; France has no right to take it away. Burn the cities, destroy the harvests, tear up the roads with cannon, poison the wells, show the white man the hell he comes to make ;--and he was obeyed. [Applause.] When the great William of Orange saw Louis XIV. cover Holland with troops, he said, Break down the dikes, give Holland back to ocean ; and Europe said, Sublime When Alexander saw the armies of France descend upon Russia, he said, Burn Moscow, starve back the invaders ; and Europe said, Sublime!! This black saw all Europe marshalled to crush him, and gave to his people the same heroic example of defiance. It is true, the scene grows bloodier as we proceed. But, remember, the white man fitly accompanied his infamous at
Hispaniola (search for this): chapter 24
tead of standing at the bottom of the list, is entitled, if judged either by its great men or its masses, either by its courage, Its purpose, or its endurance, to a place as near ours as any other blood known in history. And, for the purpose of my argument, I take an island, St. Domingo, about the size of South Carolina, the third spot in America upon which Columbus placed his foot. Charmed by the magnificence of its scenery and fertility of its soil, he gave it the fondest of all names, Hispaniola, Little Spain. His successor, more pious, rebaptized it from St. Dominic, St. Domingo; and when the blacks, in 1803, drove our white blood from its surface, they drove our names with us, and began the year 1804 under the old name, Hayti, the land of mountains. It was originally tenanted by filibusters, French and Spanish, of the early commercial epochs, the pirates of that day as of ours. The Spanish took the eastern two thirds, the French the western third of the island, and they gradu
Cuba, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
next thousand prisoners and sacrificed them on her grave. The French exhausted every form of torture. The negroes were bound together and thrown into the sea; any one who floated was shot,--others sunk with cannonballs tied to their feet; some smothered with sulphur fumes,--others strangled, scourged to death, gibbeted; sixteen of Toussaint's officers were chained to rocks in desert islands,--others in marshes, and left to be devoured by poisonous reptiles and insects. Rochambeau sent to Cuba for bloodhounds. When they arrived, the young girls went down to the wharf, decked the hounds with ribbons and flowers, kissed their necks, and, seated in the amphitheatre, the women clapped their hands to see a negro thrown to these dogs, previously starved to rage. But the negroes besieged this very city so closely that these same girls, in their misery, ate the very hounds they had welcomed. Then flashed forth that defying courage and sublime endurance which show how alike all races a
America (Netherlands) (search for this): chapter 24
f French. men who skulked home under the English flag, and ask them. And if that does not satisfy you, come home, and if it had been October, 1859, you might have come by way of quaking Virginia, and asked her what she thought of negro courage. You may also remember this,--that we Saxons were slaves about four hundred years, sold with the land, and our fathers never raised a finger to end that slavery. They waited till Christianity and civilization, till commerce and the discovery of America, melted away their chains. Spartacus in Italy led the slaves of Rome against the Empress of the world. She murdered him, and crucified them. There never was a slave rebellion successful but once, and that was in St. Domingo. Every race has been, some time or other, in chains. But there never was a race that, weakened and degraded by such chattel slavery, unaided, tore off its own fetters, forged them into swords, and won its liberty on the battle-field, but one, and that was the black
Ilva (Italy) (search for this): chapter 24
e is the white, there is the black; what are you afraid of? So when people came to him in great numbers for office, u it is reported they do sometimes even in Washington, he learned the first words of a Catholic prayer in Latin, and, repeating it, would say, Do you understand that? No, sir. What! want an office, and not know Latin? Go home and learn it! Then, again, like Napoleon,--like genius always,he had confidence in his power to rule men. You remember when Bonaparte returned from Elba, and Louis XVIII. sent an army against him, Bonaparte descended from his carriage, opened his coat, offering his breast to their muskets, and saying, Frenchmen, it is the Emperor and they ranged themselves behind him, his soldiers, shouting, Vive l'empereur! That was in 1815. Twelve years before, Toussaint, finding that four of his regiments had deserted and gone to Leclerc, drew his sword, flung it on the grass, went across the field to them, folded his arms, and said, Children, can you po
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